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goodwill
Jul 2, 2004, 6:56 AM
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Last weekend, while climbing Whodunit at Tahquitz, I narrowly missed my first chance to score a piece of booty. I was just cruising along when I spotted her: petite, slender, but she appeared to be totally unattached. I approached and took a closer look. She definitely looked available for the taking. So I went for it. 8^) As I prodded and toyed with her, she loosened up quite a bit, and I just knew I would get her! I got so excited at the prospect of finally scoring some booty. :D Sure, she wasn't the greatest looking thing in the world, but it would be better than some of my friends, who just kept getting crabs. But when I tried to make the final move, she just wouldn't budge. I prodded gently at first, but to no avail. I tried being more forceful, and she still refused. I went back and forth, tried every subtle move I could think of, but alas, she just wouldn't be mine. After what seemed like hours, I finally gave up, and went on my way. :( Perhaps patience and persistence are the virtues I lack. As far as I know, she's still there, just waiting for a man (or woman?) with just the right moves to come and sweep her away.
(Since I know people will ask, it was on the very last pitch of Whodunit, just as the route starts to go between the two sections of the big roof. The piece was a small nut, about the size of a #4 stopper... nothing to cry over, but I'm still a booty virgin. It's probably also not worth climbing so many pitches for, but the climb is certainly worth doing, booty or not. Stellar route.)
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adamecks
Jul 2, 2004, 12:14 PM
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Anyone?
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Jul 2, 2004, 12:32 PM
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you can't rush getting booty, it will come as you grow and develop. it just happens, i just got my first piece of booty last month and let me tell you, it was great. but it doesn't come easy, booty gear is stuck on the wall for a reason. good luck son, but remember to use protection.
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kimmyt
Jul 2, 2004, 1:48 PM
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Not always. My partner found a booty nut the other day on the first pitch of an easy 5.3 at the GUnks. It wasn't even stuck, it came loose as soon as he grabbed it.
Manna from the heavens.
K.
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Jul 2, 2004, 1:58 PM
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If your hanging at tahquiz, the booty will come!
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Jul 2, 2004, 2:05 PM
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Last time I went for booty, I stuck my hand in the crack, fished around inside for a bit and got my hand slapped by her.
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Jul 2, 2004, 2:07 PM
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Had to leave a booty once. She was perfect with nice supple curves and an ominous flick from time to time that drove me wild. Didn't leave her in a hard place but we had to part ways because of my non-potency that day. :cry: For whom ever finds her use her with love the way I couldn't.
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rwaltermyer
Jul 2, 2004, 2:13 PM
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I was wondering how long it would take for this thread to stray out topic... :lol:
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gravitytheory
Jul 2, 2004, 2:17 PM
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www.becomeaplayer.com
Stumbled across this one whilst looking for an analysis of body-language for a psychology class. Ladies, any comments on the (most comical) analysis of interpersonal psychology available on this most academically rigorous information site?
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thegreytradster
Jul 2, 2004, 2:59 PM
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In reply to: If your hanging at tahquiz, the booty will come!
Two ovals, and a brand new Trango Cam so far this year. Keep it up kids, I can always use the gear.
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nirvana
Jul 2, 2004, 3:05 PM
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In reply to: Ladies, any comments on the (most comical) analysis of interpersonal psychology available on this most academically rigorous information site?
One of the best things about men who climb is that they generally have better things to do than attempt that idiotic "playa" stuff. I'd like to see some of those cool players up on a tough multipitch. Now there's a funny thought!
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mountainchick82
Jul 2, 2004, 3:10 PM
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omg...hahaha..funny site. if any guys go by this well... :shock:
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ntu_soca
Jul 2, 2004, 3:37 PM
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In reply to: Two ovals, and a brand new Trango Cam so far this year. Keep it up kids, I can always use the gear.
This year I've already got 2 crabs, 2 nuts, and a big cam. All on different routes. Keep up the bailing guys.
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sarcat
Jul 2, 2004, 3:44 PM
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Rockclimber chapter 7 verse 2:
"The climber leaveth hence. The climber taketh away"
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metakinjo
Jul 2, 2004, 3:57 PM
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ROFLMAO...and I thought you were talking about a real female. LOL...I mean I knew what you were talking about the whole time. Buried treasure right? Gaarrrrrrrrrr.
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madmax
Jul 2, 2004, 4:12 PM
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A measly little stopper ain't really scoring booty; it's kinda like getting a goodnight kiss. Now a cam, on the other hand, is like.... :)
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rwaltermyer
Jul 2, 2004, 5:56 PM
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In reply to: A measly little stopper ain't really scoring booty; it's kinda like getting a goodnight kiss. Now a cam, on the other hand, is like.... :)
hahahahahaha :lol: :lol: :lol: Classic.
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Jul 2, 2004, 7:51 PM
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if you want a cam and you're at tahquitz, hit up coffin nail. there's a light green cam, maybe an HB?, shoved so far in that crack that... well, let's just not go there.
anyway, you'll need a few extra tools to get it, me and my nut tool were unsuccessful.
it was there as of tuesday, 6/30
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ntu_soca
Jul 2, 2004, 8:01 PM
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I tried to get that cam on coffin nail also, I worked on it for probably 5 min. I think it's a DMM. It will come out soon, it probably won't make it threw the weekend.
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ricardol
Jul 2, 2004, 8:10 PM
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sometimes you get some bootie --
sometimes you have to give up some bootie ..
.. i also thought this was going to be a post that should have gone in the "Random Encounters" section of craigslist
-- ricardo
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chodeman
Jul 2, 2004, 8:17 PM
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In reply to: my friends, who just kept getting crabs.
your friends have crabs that sucks for them lol (sorry i had to say it)
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Jul 2, 2004, 10:26 PM
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Last weekend I got 2 brand new 4 ft slings, a locking biner, 2 non lockers and a stopper. I ended up needing to leave one biner. Not a bad trade.
I haven't scored a cam yet this year. 3 is my best cam score for a single season, I'd like to at least match that this year.
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thegreytradster
Jul 2, 2004, 10:36 PM
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Easyest one was last winter at J tree 3 brand new tripple length slings with the price tags still on 'em on a Cats Paw Acacia (gotch'a bush) Near the Atlantis wall.
note to self, do Coffin Nail this weekend and bring "the engineer" as second. :wink:
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Jul 8, 2004, 3:55 AM
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I got a BD #0 red cam on Tahquitz near the end of The Error. It was just sitting there in a flake not even stuck. It was about 1 pitch from the top.
It looks a little scratched. Right now it hangs from my shifter on my truck.
DO ANY OF YOU USE BOOTY REGULARLY, OR NOT TRUST IT AT ALL???
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coylec
Jul 8, 2004, 4:07 AM
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yes, i use bootied gear.
if you can't find good booty, just take trash -- its good karma that will help you score some real finds.
coylec
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Jul 9, 2004, 3:02 AM
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A few weekends ago I went climbing with a large group of people. I showed up to the climb late and nobody was there. I did find a twenty foot piece of webbing, 6 quickdraws, 1 locking biner, and an ABC cam. I hung around for over an hour and didn't see anybody. I had a hunch it belonged to someone in the group I was to climb with so I took it back to the campsite and asked around to find out whose gear it was. Well it turned out it didn't belong to any of them. I feel kinda bad for the sucker that left it though. But then again, what kind of moron leaves that much gear?
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Jul 9, 2004, 5:03 AM
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You just gotta know where to look. Why just yesterday, I (personally) stripped 3 carabiners off of the same 5.7 pitch, while my partner got 2, plus a long dyneema sling. I oughta go out there once a week to clean house!
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Jul 9, 2004, 5:10 AM
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I usually get about 100 dollars in retail off of tahquitz a year. Mostly from bolt hangers and chains I steal.
Just kidding. Multiple biners, slings, nuts, and like 1-2 cams a year.
Keep on climbing. Gear booty and real booty will cum soon enough. Especially if you are a trad climber. Not so much if you are a spandex sporting sporto.
TRADitionally yours,
Cali Dirtbag
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Jul 9, 2004, 5:23 AM
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In the last 2 weeks at Donner Summit I have scored a Trango double wiregate draw, an old locking biner, and #12 and #7 BD nuts. My first booty! :D
Matt
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Jul 9, 2004, 5:56 PM
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On the 5.9 traverse pitch (after the crux pitch) on the Scenic Cruise is a #2 Friend just waiting to be bootied. :lol:
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Jul 9, 2004, 6:04 PM
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3 Days ago I counted 8 bail biners at Weeping Wall on the Seward Highway.. We snagged one of them... :lol:
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Jul 10, 2004, 8:39 AM
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A couple weeks ago I found a tcu, chouinard #1 cam, and a double length spectra runner all left on a 5.6. Made me a tad nervous since I was soloing and thinking maybe I was off route. I mean, who bails or leaves gear on a 5.6?
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herm
Jul 11, 2004, 5:19 PM
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in my experience, it is the easy routes that accumulate the most booty......
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Jul 11, 2004, 6:01 PM
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BootY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
Ah........the memories !!!!!!!!
I'm currently collecting biners of all genres for a quasi-art-welded-structure.
Anyone out there need to un-load some biners for said art thang?!?
Sorry for stealing this thread!!
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Jul 11, 2004, 7:55 PM
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My first score - six brand new, with the tags still on, BD carabiners. One of my clients had purchased them for use at her work (a philanthropical, non-climbing related organization - what they need biners for, I don't know). Apparently, they "were the wrong size" and since she knew I had just started climbing, she took them home and left them for me.
I know it's not "real" booty, but for only being a n00b, it has to be good enough for me. And, technically, I DID find them.....they were just sitting on a kitchen counter with a note attached and a clear indication of their provinence instead of crammed stuck in some crevice giving off "ooooh s---, gotta get outa here. now." vibes..... What can I say? How else would a person who's been climbing only a few months and won't be leading for quite some time, and has to be content with getting outside climbing like once a month cash in? I got Baby Booty, how's that?
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Jul 11, 2004, 7:58 PM
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Mountain chick82, Yeah you know that some men go by this and others don't.
I think you bit off more than you could chew!!!! :D
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Jul 11, 2004, 8:05 PM
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In reply to: omg...hahaha..funny site. if any guys go by this well... :shock:
Well what? You know that some guys go by this. Besides maybe you bit off more thatn you could chew!!!! :D
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Jul 11, 2004, 8:22 PM
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I left some booty last night. Maybe a #4 nut or so placed during the opening moves of sasquatch in Little Cottonwood. I could have cleaned her up if I had just been a bit more patient (and remembered my nut tool), but the climb ahead of me was more important than the nut beside me. Kudos to whoever claims her.
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Jul 11, 2004, 8:39 PM
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Two ovals, and a brand new Trango Cam so far this year. Keep it up kids, I can always use the gear.
Yes, indeed. Sometimes it's like taking candy from a baby up there, especially in the easy/moderate trade routes.
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tcantor333
Jul 11, 2004, 8:49 PM
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In reply to: On the 5.9 traverse pitch (after the crux pitch) on the Scenic Cruise is a #2 Friend just waiting to be bootied. :lol:
ROFLMAO. Yeah, that'd be one that the beginning booty puller should run right up and grab. Too Funny.
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tcantor333
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In reply to: On the 5.9 traverse pitch (after the crux pitch) on the Scenic Cruise is a #2 Friend just waiting to be bootied. :lol:
ROFLMAO. Yeah, that'd be one that the beginning booty puller should run right up and grab. Too Funny.
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In reply to: You bit off more than you could chew the first day you met me
Thank you for the Dropkick Murphy's quote.
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Jul 12, 2004, 12:01 AM
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In reply to: Not always. My partner found a booty nut the other day on the first pitch of an easy 5.3 at the GUnks. It wasn't even stuck, it came loose as soon as he grabbed it. Manna from the heavens. K.
Aah... Nothing like easy booty.
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Jul 12, 2004, 4:28 AM
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Another score: an awesome rainjacket ... nearly new.
coylec
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It finally happened! :D I was back at Tahquitz on Wednesday, and on the first pitch of Open Book, I bootied a brand spankin new cam! That's pretty fine for my first booty ever! It's a number 1 Rock Empire cam, so it's nothing fancy, but it's in pristine condition. Seriously, it looks like the crack I pulled it from might have been the first time it was ever placed. The thing that amazed me the most was how easily it came out... most stuck cams that I've seen were really badly stuck. This one was just shoved way up in the crack, so that the trigger was unreachable with fingers, but easily reached with a nut tool. One quick pull on the trigger was all it took! :idea:
On the other hand, the booty gods giveth, and the booty gods taketh away. Later that day, I think I may have lost my sunglasses in the parking area. :roll:
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Jul 30, 2004, 1:24 PM
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Congrat's...Keep climbing and going to different area's.....you'll always find something.......good friend found a set of doubles and and a complete rap station(cams and nuts/biners) midroute last year for no apparent reason....and posted finding it for a long time in hopes of giving it back....anyway, good climbing!!!
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Whenever I climb at Peterskill, I make a round of the top of the walls early-on. There are several expanding flakes that, when heated by the sun, "close up" like a clamshell and trap any gear in it. I've gotten a #9 nut, a #10 nut, and a blue tricam so far this year; the #10 nut needs new shrinkwrap, but all are otherwise in excellent shape.
I nearly had to leave a #10 hex, though - my partner forgot his nut tool, but managed to dislodge it with his apartment keys. He also had to leave two tricams (pink, red) to the folks coming up behind us on Beginner's Delight, but they gave them back at the top. Very generous of them, and totally unexpected. We offered to let them rappel on our doubles, to get down faster, and let them go first - in thanks.
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On my first 2 multipitch trad climbs I got booty gear. Not bad eh? A #6 WC rock and a CAMP cleannose bentgate biner (notch on gate, pin in nose) on South Crack, a team ahead of us decided to bail after all the 5.8 and .7 had finished. Funny. Then on Muinginella I got a burly OP Locking D, rated at 35kN. So I got some leaver biners, first couple times on trad MP. Yay me! :P
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Jul 30, 2004, 7:14 PM
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How come one of my friends who is new to the booty game keeps getting all the booty, and I seem to never get any? I tried combing the local crags, I tried taditional style, I even got an eye patch. What gives?
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Jul 30, 2004, 7:54 PM
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i got some great booty last night.
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Guess I was lucky, got a #5 Metolius cam on my first day climbing muli-pitch, not so much since then. I'm sure your turn will come.
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HAHAHAHAHA wow i must be behind on the trad lingo i was tottaly disgusted with this post who ever would have guessed........ hahahaha
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I have only myself found one piece of booty. (or two really), and it was totally unexpected, as I was in an area not normally used for climbing (and live on an island where climbing is not all that common anyway), because of the crumbly rock and occasional landslips there. I climbed up to a ledge, and looking right suddenly realised that sitting on the ledge rapped around a boulder was a sling, and a wiregate crab which someone had ditched in an attempt to back off the route. So I took it thinking that it would only go to waste there anyway. So far I've used the crab for slinging nuts, and have kept the sling in reserve incase I ever need to sacrifice a sling to back off a route. Both looked in fairly good condition, but despite this, non of the local climbers I know and have talked to have ever abandoned a sling and crab in the location I am talking about.
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Booty? I thought booty was supposed to be good? I guess it will be good for the next person to climb The Step at Tahquitz. They will find the nut, biner, and rap ring my partner had to leave on the second pitch right below the roof.
Hmm.. if I leave and you find, I gave you some booty. Shouldn't you atleast say thank you or send flowers.
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